It involves a photo of a shark that was manipulated to make the shark appeak much larger than in reality.

Photos by Steven Beard Steven Beard, 56, of Port Neches, shot several photos, seen above, of a five foot black-tipped shark on July 16, 2006, and later combined parts of photos A and B, above, to come up with a faked photo, C, which he emailed to a relative who then emailed it to six other people. Eventually the faked photo circulated world-wide on the internet.

About Craig WoolheaterCo-founder of Cryptomundo in 2005.
I have appeared in or contributed to the following TV programs, documentaries and films:
OLN's Mysterious Encounters: "Caddo Critter", Southern Fried Bigfoot, Travel Channel's Weird Travels: "Bigfoot", History Channel's MonsterQuest: "Swamp Stalker", The Wild Man of the Navidad, Destination America's Monsters and Mysteries in America: Texas Terror - Lake Worth Monster, Animal Planet's Finding Bigfoot: Return to Boggy Creek and Beast of the Bayou.

the very least they should have done is blew up the same shark as the background, and maybe pulled it down to look closer to the camera. Unless one wants to play with shadows and reflections, one should always keep the same objects in the picture.

It probably started out pretty harmless, but unfortunately these things tend to spin out of control. Before you know it, it gets splattered all over the net, people don’t realize it was a joke, rumors start, it gets accepted as real by some people, and then even when it is proven to be a hoax, you’ll still have people insisting it’s real.

When looking at the image closely to determine if they’re hoaxers or not. You have to look at the people look at their shadows if it sunny or day light, then examine the creature and see if the shadow approach the same direction as people are. I mean look at the image “C”, no shadow is coming forward from the shark but the people has shadow that come foward.

Also how are the people faces dark and the shark so clear? TOTAL FAKE!